Fushuan [he/him]

Uuuuhhh… Semantics. Preloading is an optimisation technique and animations I would consider part of the interface, not the experience. You design an experience with animations on the interface.

It’s whatever, I don’t have a strong opinion on it so if you feel like my interpretation is wrong go at it, not gonna defend it.

You design the UI while considering the UX. You only develop the UI, but you need to Design the UX and then design the UI considering UX before developing it.

There’s clearly plenty people in this very post complaining about the UI/UX of LO as being bad. You can have anecdotal examples of people liking it but I bet most of the ones that don’t also have more examples.

Of course that it’s a us problem. Problem is, us is the huge majority, and if the huge majority thinks that the UI is bad, it kinda is…

It kinda doesn’t? The first time you open a file (because let’s be honest we don’t open the program itself usually) 4 popups show up, which you close because you want to see the damn file, and then the UI change is all gone.

Having the user click some buttons from popups on the first launch to enable the good UI is bad UX. Simple as.

We love smorty so the spelling bit is wrong.

Yeah no, I disagree with you and agree with the Reddit post. I had games in my NTFS drive when I fully swapped Linux and they stood there for a year because I’m lazy and they ran fine, but taking the time to copy them to another brtfs drive, format the NTFS one to brtfs and swap them back, then reconfigure steam to rediscover the games sped up their performances because while the NTFS translation layer works incredibly well for what it’s doing, using an actual Linux native dusk format is just better.

You fuckup is probably because you didn’t do the swap correctly, yet your recommendation is to not attempt the swap instead of doing it correctly.

For others that are thinking of doing this, move everything to a different drive temporarily, then format, then move everything back. On steam, remove the steam library from the drive and add it again. If there were any issues during the swaps steam will realise on the check it does when reading the steal library of that drive, and prompt you to download whatever it finds faulty.

Btw, not that it’s gonna change him or whatever, but discord works pretty well now, as well as on windows. You can share screen no problem Wayland/X11, audio is smooth and it basically works.

That’s the thing, Microsoft intentionally breaks formatting of files exported from libreoffice.

TFT and office, mostly. Libreoffice isn’t valid, mostly because Microsoft intentionally breaks their own formats, but yeah.

Salutations! I did the same and there was none.

Why, you put fossils in there and are able to rub it with your wearables to modify their properties.

Pretty simple.

… That is not true. We get app recommendations in the home screen and we get a “news” panel. Those are ads. You can’t disable the recommended apps thing either. Recommended by who? The top payer? Fuck off.

That was an issue in discord for the mute I recall, but since some months ago it worked as expected so I guess it’s fixed? Somehow. Bet it’s an app by app basis though.

That chart means nothing if all the games you play work fine. I have tons of hours on MH Wilds for example and that’s the only game where I had to do tinkering in the last 3 years, but we all know that wasn’t a OS specific issue right? PoE 2 crashed in Vulkan for the first week, worked fine on dx12. Now works fine on Vulkan and I’m having a much better experience than some of my buddies on windows with game crashes.

I would track the performance of your games instead of the overall.

If you left college a decade ago and you need to hide you porn you have other issues buddy. And steamos being based in arch will be helpful for a lot of people too

Steam is a game distribution store, Steam machine and deck are console oriented machines.

Linux as a whole has dominance in the server world, valve is touching the gaming side of desktop Linux. Desktop Linux is tiny compared to Windows. You are comparing it to a phone operating system in a world where they were two-ish, to a potential distro in a world where there are 12 or more, several of those widely used in servers.

Be angry if you want but it’s not the same.

GoG, epic, any other store really. Proton is made by valve but it works in whatever, and there are tools now to use proton (not wine, proton) outside of steam to get all the goodies you got on top. Heroic launcher does that for the games you get from the Amazon store, gog, epic, and any other exe you got.

I even installed battle net, and once you open it everything you install from there works in that bubble and work, I played plenty HOTS games.

I play modded D2 without much issues.

You know why the steam market share in Linux is so high? Because they are the ones that put the work to make windows games work on Linux. Yes, wine existed before but they both adapted it for games and contributed to the overall wine project a ton. Also, iirc, steamdecks make up for 30% of the Linux machines from valve’s yearly reports. The market is tremendously tiny yet.

They are using a modified arch distro with KDE, yeah it defaults to steam big picture on launch but that can be changed, specially on the GabeCube. It’s a computer, a literal computer with all the capabilities and support systems of arch Linux with KDE.

The amount of contributions they have done to the Linux gaming world to then use it in their consoles is insane. They didn’t built it for themselves, they built it for everybody, then made it popular in their consoles so they get money back from increased sales on the games.

They did sell the deck at a loss, but that was a new concept and people were weary, price needed to be good. Now people know that the idea works, the picture changes.

I don’t really care if they sell at a loss or no, I’m not buying one when I basically have the equivalent already at home, but saying that their plan is to corner consumers sounds like the other side of the lunacy spectrum as those that treat steam as religion.

I never found using endeavour any more trouble than using Ubuntu or fedora, and I’ve used both in school or work so, my question back to you, why do people choose corporate coded distros like fedora or Ubuntu when easy to use, up to date and free as in freedom distros like endeavour exist?

I’m going extra silly: why do you wear bikinis when swimsuits exist? Dunno, preferences. People have them.

My answer is that I have a degree in CS and I work on the field. I know what I’m talking about. I literally work in the massive data processing field (not tracking, bank data but still).

“No, they are not listening to me through the microphone of my phone. They don’t need to, that’s the scary part.”